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The show early next year will display landscapes which Renoir - more famous for his nudes and scenes of everyday Parisian life - composed during his travels away from France.

It will include paintings he executed while journeying through Italy and North Africa, many of which are more free flowing and experimental than his more familiar work.

Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell said: "These landscapes are a little known part of Renoir's work. The exhibition will reveal a man who, when he travelled, took his paintbox with him and painted for his own pleasure.

"The National Gallery could not have chosen anything better to give us a new insight into the old man." The exhibition begins in 1865, at which point the young artist was working alongside the founders of Impressionism, Monet, Cézanne and Sisley, using their technical and stylistic innovations as a launchpad for his own vision.

Tracy Jones, of the National Gallery, said: "By the 1870s Renoir had defined his distinctive quick, silvery brushstroke and began to explore colour and new kinds of spatial structure in order to achieve painterly freedom." The experimental-side to Renoir can be seen in Fog on Guernsey, painted when he visited the island in 1883, and Piazza San Marco and Vesuvius, from his 1881 tour of Italy.

Renoir also travelled to North Africa where the intense sunlight and colour had a profound effect. Here, in 1881, he painted the vibrant Le Jardin d'essai à Alger.

The exhibition also includes scenes from closer to home, such as a painting of Monet at work in his garden in Argenteuil, near Paris, and a garden in Rue Cortot, Montmartre.

The paintings have been brought together from around the world, including Mirage casino in Las Vegas where owner Steve Wynn recently put his elbow through Picasso's La Reve while celebrating a record-breaking deal to sell it for $139million (£72.8million). The deal was cancelled and Mr Wynn now plans to restore the painting.

Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883 is at the National Gallery from 21 February until 20 May.